Developers and dreamers looking out on the vastness of the open ocean are
seeing all sorts of opportunities these days. WORLD CITY has visions a floating
hotel complex, with which they plan to snare a share of the $50 billion
conventions market by offering tax deductibility. CEO John Rogers, states,
"We've pretty much developed the 30 percent of this planet that is
land mass. Now it's time to develop the 70 percent that is water."
The Japanese government has helped fund the three-year "Megafloat R&D
Project" to design floating housing complexes in order to escape the
crunch on their land-poor country. The Pentagon pictures billion-dollar
floating air bases towed to hot spots in the event of a crisis. But perhaps
the most ambitious project is the world's first floating city. Florida-based
ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS INC. has been planning the project for 10 years. The
$6 billion vessel "Freedom," would be 27 times larger than the
biggest passenger ship ever made, and home to 45,000 residents. The ship
would circle the globe once every two years, floating in international waters
off major coastal cities for weeks at a time. The city would boast a school
system, medical center, airport and police force. Nan Ellin, author of "Architecture
of Fear," comments that "Freedom" is a logical extension
of 20th century housing patterns. "We've fled from the city to the
suburbs to the gated communities. A floating city is the ultimate escape
in that it is ultra-exclusive and ultra-safe." 350 pioneers have already
signed up for condos averaging $800,000 apiece, and building could start
as early as September. (JG)

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THE ENEMY WITHIN
(Source: HEALTH via SPECTRUM, Mar-Apr/97)

Nearly all homosexuals have been taunted or threatened because of their
sexual orientation, and more than one third have been physically attacked.
In order to better understand the cause of homophobic attitudes, psychologists
at the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA recruited 64 male heterosexual students and
divided them into two groups -- homophobic and non-homophobic -- according
to the degrees of anger and dread they experienced around gays. The students
in both groups watched erotic videotapes featuring heterosexual, lesbian,
and gay-male sex while their levels of physical arousal were measured. Surprisingly,
84 percent of the homophobes responded physically to images of male homosexual
sex, all the while denying feeling excited by the erotic scenes, compared
to only 34 percent of the of the non-homophobes. This study seems to support
the theory that repressed homosexual urges motivate the aversion, discomfort,
and rage felt by some men toward gays, and this emotional turmoil sometimes
leads to violence. (JG)

The birth of a red heifer, a breed thought to be long extinct, has renewed
hopes of orthodox Jews in Israel that the Old Testament priesthood and animal
sacrifices can be re-established in Jerusalem. The Book of Numbers required
religious Israelites to sacrifice a red heifer as part of their ceremonial
purification. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. End time
prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel refer to a time when such sacrifices are
once again offered in a newly-rebuilt Temple, heralding the arrival of the
Messiah. Ceremonial and moral law encoded in the Torah could again become
a rallying point for Jewish religious, cultural and ethnic identity, just
as it was under King Solomon, who built the original temple. According to
Avraham Poraz, a member of the Israeli Parliament, "If the fanatics
get ahold of [this] and try to take over the Temple Mount, God knows what
will happen." [Our information on this event and related prophecies
is sketchy. If you are able to shed more light on the matter, we would like
to hear from you. James Gregory "jpg@sedona.net"]

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WHERE'S THE BEEF?
(Source: Robert J. Samuelson, NEWSWEEK, 4/7/97)

While most Americans know that the amount of beef consumed by the nation
has declined over the last 20 years (23 percent), it seems to be one of
the few food items that we are eating less. In the years from 1975 to 1994,
as expected, consumption of chicken was up (88 percent), but surprisingly,
so were pork (28 percent), fresh vegetables (29 percent), fruit juice (30
percent), and soft drinks (85 percent). One of the few products that showed
a decline in consumption besides beef was coffee (33 percent). (JG)

Britain's ICELAND SUPERMARKETS have just started offering veggies with kid
appeal. Chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn, and peas that taste
like baked beans are included in their new line of "Wacky Way"
vegetables. Not making the cut: Bubble-gum-flavored broccoli. (JG)

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THE IMMACULATE CONFECTION
(Source: Rebecca Ostriker, NEW AGE JOURNAL, 6/97)

On October 15, 1996, a modern-day miracle took place at BONGO JAVA, a Nashville,
Tennessee coffeehouse: An employee about to take a bite of a cinnamon bun
noticed that it looked like Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Word of the "Nun
Bun" flashed around the world. The public was hungry for more. BONGO
JAVA has now started to market the likeness on T-shirts and coffee mugs,
and donates 10 percent of the proceeds to charity. There is even a Nun Bun
Web site (www.qecmedia.com) which displays the saintly nun morphing into
her baked likeness. One comment on the site's guest book: "I have worshipped
cinnamon buns for years now. Ironically, there is a nun at my church who
looks remarkably like a cinnamon roll." (JG)

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ROBOTIC GAS PUMP
(Source: Earle Eldridge, USA TODAY, 4/9/97)

Tired of getting smelly hands and being rained on when you gas up at self-serve
stations? SHELL OIL has a better way: The Smart Pump. Currently being tested
in Sacramento, people can actually have their gas tanks filled up without
ever having to leave their cars. Here is how it works: Pull up to the gas
pump; a red light signals where to stop; a panel similar to that of an ATM
automatically moves up to the driver's window; you swipe your debit or credit
card and choose your grade of gas; you unlatch the door that covers your
fuel cap (if you have a latching system); a robotic arm opens the fuel door,
places the fuel nozzle into your fuel pipe and fills your tank. The process
requires a small transmitter mounted on your windshield and a special fuel
cap from SHELL. There may be a fee to use the service. In addition to being
convenient, the pump could be a real boon to disabled drivers. (JG)

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THE LATEST IN FARM CHIC
(Source: Don Knapp, CNN ONLINE, 4/18/97)

In California, where things like the Hula Hoop and the waterbed first got
their start, dairy farmer George McClelland did not think it odd when he
decided to spend $25,000 on mattresses for every one of his 250 cows. His
hunch seems to have paid off -- since they began sleeping on the mattresses,
which are made from recycled car tires, his cows have suffered fewer health
problems. "The girls lay here, content, chewing their cud. You can
always tell a contented cow when they're chewing their cud." One reason
they're contented, says veterinarian Frank Mongini, is because the mattresses
are softer and cleaner than the sand and manure they used to sleep on. "We're
eliminating a stress here," Mongini says. Where it really pays off
is at the milking machine. Happy cows, McClelland says, are productive cows.
Can a cow's life get any better? "Well, you never know," McClelland
says. "We're thinking of trying pillows for 'em next." (JG)

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WE NEED THE MIDDLE GROUND

"I enjoyed reading the article in News Brief 56 about the COUNCIL FOR
MEDIA INTEGRITY (CMI) blasting TV shows of distorted science. I too am bugged
by shows on the paranormal that are totally uncritical and unrealistic.
However, many years ago, when I first became familiar with CMI's parent
organization, the COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF
THE PARANORMAL, my impression of them was that they were nothing short of
the mirror image of what they were criticizing. At the very least, the individuals
connected with the group at that time (Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Martin
Gardner, Philip Klass, James Randi) seemed to me, despite their claims of
objectivity, to be absolute believers in their religion of scientism. A
mention that many people see them this way might have been appropriate to
round out your article -- otherwise, one is left with the impression that
they are what they say they are: knights of reason and objectivity, just
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by both uncritical TV specials and the true-believer skeptics. Lord knows
we need this middle ground."

The mass suicide of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult left behind many
unanswered questions, not the least of which is: Who has the rights to it
all? Rio DiAngelo, who left the cult a month before the suicides and was
the first to find the bodies, demurs on the question of how much money he
stands to make, indicating that he finds the question crass.

More pragmatic is Robert Rich, Chief Executive Officer of INTERACT ENTERTAINMENT,
the multimedia firm that employs DiAngelo and may share with him the rights
to the Higher Source Web site design business -- which may be worth as much
as $1 million. It's an odd assembly. It was INTERACT that created the 1-800-SEARCH
service, designed to find long-lost loved ones. That service became the
bread and butter that launched the firm onto the Internet -- which led to
its connection with Heaven's Gate. "Here's a group of people that wants
to work for us," said Rich. "They knew our biggest business was
finding lost friends and family members -- [yet] they had deliberately lost
their friends and family members." And Rio now has business associates
instead of cult partners.

San Diego County officials are arguing with DiAngelo over who actually has
the rights to the group's property. They want to auction the group's Web
business and members' belongings, with the proceeds going to surviving family
members. DiAngelo's attorney, Robert Zakari, said his client received a
diskette on March 25 detailing plans for the business on the same day two
farewell videos and three letters arrived in the mail. Zakari refused to
release the instructions, but he said they indicate that DiAngelo and INTERACT
ENTERTAINMENT are supposed to take over the business.

Thusfar, the experience has been a profitable one for DiAngelo, in terms
of exposure and money. Counters DiAngelo: "Money does not motivate
me. I'm not the one that's made such a big deal out of this." (JG)

Can an analysis of history's millennial fevers help us see more clearly
into the future? Richard Landes and Stephen O'Leary think so. Together they
have established the CENTER FOR MILLENNIAL STUDIES dedicated to both understanding
past movements and monitoring and collecting data on current ones.

Landes, a professor of medieval history at BOSTON UNIVERSITY, has studied
the historical record of events around the year 1000 in southern France
and has recorded his findings in his book, "Relics, Apocalypse, and
the Deceits of History." The good news was that the advent of the first
millennium evoked regional efforts at civility and decency -- what contemporaries
called the "Truce of God." The bad news was that it also led to
holy war, first against the European Jews and heretics and eventually against
Muslim Jerusalem.

Landes is now working on a study of the full sweep of Western Christian
culture to the year 2000. He sees a persistent extreme oscillation between
peace and violence, and whenever these moments of millennial fervor coincide
with a revolution in communications technology, the pace quickens and the
range of society affected broadens. In antiquity, Christianity profited
from the shift from scroll to codex; in the sixteenth century, the printing
press resulted in the Protestant Revolution; and now we have the Internet.

O'Leary, a professor of communications at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
traces the rise and fall of the Millerite movement in his book, "Arguing
the Apocalypse." For years in early nineteenth-century America, Miller
had predicted an apocalyptic climax, but when he actually named a precise
date -- 1843 -- membership in his group surged, both in numbers and social
prominence of its members. When the prophecy failed to materialize (a time
known as "the Great Disappointment" in Millerite history), the
group transmuted successfully into the Seventh Day Adventists. By naming
the date, Miller made the period between 1840 and 1843 an apocalyptic hot
zone. Says O'Leary, "With the year 2000, we're in one too. The millennarian
Zeitgeist [the intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era] will
really heat up."

Here's what the CENTER FOR MILLENNIAL STUDIES thinks we can expect in the
near future:

-- Internet: If the '60s motto was, "The Revolution will not be televised,"
then the '90s motto is, "The Apocalypse will start on the Net."

-- Catastrophism: Various fear-based groups such as survivalists and paramalitias
will increase their efforts to forge protective communities against the
forces of darkness.

-- Globalism: In its secular mode, such movements will call for world government
and global peace. The Fundamentalists will perceive this call as a move
by the Antichrist to re-establish Babylon.

-- Spiritual experimentation: Nobody took UFO cultists and charismatic religious
leaders very seriously until the Heaven's Gate debacle. Expect more of the
same.

-- Jews in the news: The final conversion of the Jews, or their destruction,
has emerged in apocalyptic myth as the ultimate vindication of Christianity.
See the "Red Heifer" article in this News Brief. (JG)

RANDI ON NOSTRADAMUS
(Source: "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult
and Supernatural" by James (The Amazing) Randi via Steve Haag)

One of the most renowned and still-popular champions of disaster is Nostradamus,
born Michel de Notredame in Provence, France in 1503. He took on the Latin
version of his name when he published his major opus, "Centuries,"
which consisted of almost 1,000 quatrains (four-line verses of poetry).
According to debunker, skeptic, and sometimes magician, James Randi, Nostradamus'
writing was social and political commentary on the events of his time, rather
than obscure prophecies about the future.

Before dissecting one of Nostradamus' more popular quatrains, it is important
to have a little background on the times in which he lived. It was the era
of the Holy Inquisition, when the Catholic Church was burning heretics.
While Nostradamus was nominally Catholic, it was by force -- only two generations
earlier, the Notredames had been the Gassonets, a Jewish family that had
converted to Catholicism under pressure. Letters recently discovered in
the BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE in Paris reveal that Nostradamus was actually
a closet Luthern, something that would have had him burned at the stake
if he had been found out, thus the need to disguise the biting satire of
his commentaries.

Randi chose to analyze Quatrain 51 of Century II, one of the Top Ten often
presented as positive evidence of Nostradamus' prophetic ability. Translated
literally from the original French, it reads:

"The blood of the just shall be wanting in London,
Burnt by thunderbolts of twenty three the Six(es),
The ancient dame shall fall from (her) high place,
Of the same sect many shall be killed."

Nostrademians believe that the seer was writing about the Great Fire of
London, 111 years in the future. They point to "three the six"
as referring to the date of the event, 1666. They also say that the "ancient
dame" was St. Paul's Cathedral, known as the "Old Lady,"
which was destroyed in the fire along with many other churches, thus validating
the line, "of the same sect many shall be killed." Other fans
postulate that "Old Lady" referred to a statue of the Virgin Mary
standing atop the church which toppled during the fire.

Randi counters that St. Paul's Cathedral was never called the "Old
Lady," and a detailed illustration of the pre-fire cathedral shows
that it had no external statues. Instead, Randi claims that the "Old
Lady" refers to Catholic Queen Mary 1, who began executing prominent
Protestant heretics in London on January 23, 1555. 300 of these unfortunates
were burned at the stake in groups of six, and out of "mercy,"
bags of gunpowder were tied to their bodies to hasten their passage. Mary
died three years later, sickly and quite insane. Randi claims the following
is a more accurate translation of the quatrain:

"The blood of the innocent will be an error in London,
Burned by thunderbolts, of twenty-three, the six(es),
The senile lady will lose her high position,
Many more of the same sect will be slain."

One modern "interpreter" of Nostradamus is John Hogue, who published
his book, "Nostradamus and the Millennium" in 1987. In the first
edition, Hogue claimed that Nostradamus specified four antichrists, one
being the Ayatolah Khomeini who would lead an invading army of one million
all the way to Egypt. By the time Hogue had released his fourth printing
of his book in 1991, references to Khomeini, who had since died without
fulfilling Nostrademus' mission for him, had been replaced by Saddam Hussein.
All four editions, as Randi gleefully points out, show a portrait of Nostradamus
holding a telescope, an instrument that in his lifetime had yet been invented.
(JG)

NASA will begin its in-orbit assembly of the International Space Station
(ISS) no later than October 1998, and is looking at options that will allow
the Agency to work around the one-year delay caused by the late arrival
of the NASA-financed/Russian-built Functional Cargo Block. "We will
work through this schedule issue, and we undoubtedly will face additional
problems in the future. But we are well on our way to the realization of
this world-class facility," said NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin.
Inadequate funding by the Russian government to the RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY
(RSA) and its contractors for building another key station element -- the
Service Module -- has resulted in construction delays of up to eight months.
NASA will determine the timing for decisions which need to be made in the
event that Russia is unable to provide its agreed contributions to the ISS
program. By the time of the station's scheduled completion in 2002, it will
span the length to two football fields, weigh 460 tons and have cost $50
billion. The station, which will house seven astronaut researchers, is being
hailed as the single most costly object ever built and the biggest engineering
project since the pyramids. (JG)

A team of astronomers at the ISAAC NEWTON GROUP of telescopes in the Canary
Islands say they have found a third tail of sodium gas trailing behind the
Hale-Bopp Comet. Scientists were at a loss to explain how the sodium tail,
which is unlike any other seen before, was created. Astronomers have long
known that comets typically have two types of tails -- one made of dust
and the other of electrically-charged gas called plasma. They have also
known that comets contain sodium, but had never seen it in the form of a
tail. The sodium tail looks much different than the comet's plasma and dust
tails. The dust tail is the broad, bright band that is most visible from
Earth. The plasma tail is made of narrow wisps and is seen to the left of
the dust tail. Hale-Bopp's sodium tail, on the other hand, is described
as a straight, thin line left of the two tails. Unlike the others, it doesn't
grow wider as it gets farther from the nucleus. Said Brian Marsden, an astronomer
who runs the Cambridge-based INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION's clearinghouse
for discoveries, "It may be the most surprising thing we've had with
Hale-Bopp." (JG)

The supplies of oil in the world are finite. Discovery of new oil deposits
peaked in 1962, and since then the rate has dropped, despite technological
advancements and improved search methodologies. The U.S. Geological Survey
predicts that the world's oil production will peak around the year 2010
and by 2050 will only be a small fraction of what it is today.

At the moment, alternative fuels supply less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity.
One reason that solar power has not caught on as expected is because, compared
to other energy sources, the cost of converting sunlight to electricity
is still prohibitively high. That may be changing. A team of scientists
working at the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY's NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
has announced a technological breakthrough that could make solar power cheap
and plentiful. It involves depositing a thin layer of a semiconductor called
indium gallium diselenide onto a glass backing. When the semiconductor is
exposed to sunlight, it converts it into electricity at one tenth the cost
of the conventional crystalline silicon-based cells now on the market.

Solar cells using this new technology could be available within a few years
to produce electricity from the sun at the rate of six cents per kilowatt
hour -- a figure that compares very favorably to electricity now generated
from nuclear, coal- and oil-fired power plants. The discovery could help
usher in a golden age of solar power. Project leader Ken Zweibel predicts,
"By the year 2005, photovoltaics should compete for at least 10 percent
of the world energy market." The figure is particularly significant,
considering that nuclear power now accounts for 8 percent of the world's
power. (JG)

Almost half the material going into landfills today is NOT household waste.
Since 1970, construction debris has made up 49 percent of landfills, and
non-packaging garbage another 35 percent. Surprisingly, paper and plastic
packaging only made up 16 percent of the total content of landfills.

Imagine an industrial park in which all the products are designed and manufactured
in environmentally-friendly ways, and the businesses are organized so that
the waste produced by one company can be used as raw material by another.
That's the dream being pushed toward reality by The GREEN INSTITUTE, a venture
in Minneapolis that is setting up what it calls an "ecological industrial
park," one of about 20 similar projects operating independently nationwide.
In its ideal form, GREEN INSTITUTE Executive Director Michael Krause envisions
an industrial system that would emulate nature, where nothing is wasted.

The GREEN INSTITUTE has already created one business -- THE RE-USE CENTER
-- a retail operation that sells building materials salvaged from demolished
properties. It employs 13 people and generates $350,000 in annual sales.
Eventually, the GREEN INSTITUTE hopes to expand to 200,000 square feet of
industrial space. Krause has been talking to a variety of potential tenants,
including one which would open a paint remanufacturing plant that would
recycle old paint, some of it becoming high-quality caulk. Krause especially
likes the idea of businesses that can use each other's waste. "That's
almost always cheaper than using a virgin raw material," he said.

Another eco-park is taking root in Brownsville, Texas, where BECHTEL CORP.,
a high-tech research firm, has prepared a computer-generated list of hundreds
of companies that might be good matches to use each other's waste. Brownsville
recently hosted a conference for eco-park developers across the country.
The keynote speaker, a vice president at CHAPARRAL STEEL near Dallas, explained
how his company takes junked cars and separates the steel from the plastic
and glass. Then, the company runs the metal through a minimill to produce
a top-quality steel. CHAPARRAL is also looking for ways to recycle the plastic
and glass from those cars. "The company's goal is zero waste, where
everything that comes from the cars finds a market. (JG)

A single edition of the NEW YORK TIMES contains more information than an
average person in the 17th century would have encountered in a lifetime.
Statistics show that the average worker in a large corporation sends and
receives an astounding 177 messages a day -- a brainbending cocktail of
phone calls, voicemail, email, pages, post-it notes, and faxes.

Sick of the information age? You are not alone. It's making some people
physically ill and could even be fatal, according to some experts, like
psychologist David Lewis who says, "We are seeing a failure of concentration;
we are seeing a loss of motivation, loss of morale; we are seeing greater
irritability." The illness isn't just mental. "On the physical
level, you might find people having digestive problems," continues
Lewis. "They may, if the stress is chronic, have problems with their
heart -- hypertension, high blood pressure." Other possible consequences:
sleep disorders and adverse effects on personal and sex lives.

In a survey of managers conducted by REUTERS, nearly half thought the Internet
would be a prime cause of information overload in the next two years, and
one third said they already suffered from stress-related health problems
brought on by too much information. 43 percent said information overload
made it difficult to make important decisions and almost two thirds said
their personal relationships were suffering as a result of the stress.

A slowness backlash seems to be emerging out of all this frenzy, according
to Charles Cobbs, a neurosurgery resident at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
San Franciso, who must carry a cell phone, laptop computer and digital organizer
to stay on top of his busy schedule. Cobbs, who has even taken to wearing
a pager under his wetsuit when he is surfing, says we all long for a simpler
life: "We want to turn off the TV, unplug the phone, and read a book."

U.S. epidemiologists wanted to determine how much racial bias entered in
to physician' treatments of patients, so they reviewed 9,100 cases of serious
illness in five American hospitals. The researchers found that American
doctors, who are predominantly white, ordered surgery, dialysis, and other
special procedures 50 percent more often for their white patients than for
their black ones. Ironically, the evidence also showed that a larger percentage
of blacks survived their illnesses compared to whites. (JG)

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NATURAL ARTHRITIS CURE?
(Source: Geoffrey Cowley, NEWSWEEK, 2/17/97)

Arthritis may be the world's leading health complaint. In the U.S. alone,
50 million people suffer from the gradual breakdown of the cartilage that
cushions joints. The billions spent on relief only mask the pain and don't
do anything to repair the damage. Could a simple food supplement succeed
where pharmaceuticals have failed? That is the premise of Dr. Jason Theodosakis
in his new book, "The Arthritis Cure." He claims that by supplementing
two substances produced naturally by the body -- glucosamine and chondroitin
sulfate -- arthritis suffers can "slow, halt, or prevent the degeneration
of cartilage" and resume active lives. While some scoff, tests show
that glucosamine can stimulate cartilage production and chondroitin slows
its removal. Toxicology studies show that both nutrients are safe, even
at high doses. While the nutrients show great promise in preliminary studies,
the ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION warns that "long-term studies are needed to
see if the products are indeed helpful and safe." A number of brands
of the supplements are now available on the market. (JG)

AUFORA NEWS UPDATE is one of the foremost providers of news and information
from the world of UFOlogy. Now, you can unleash your questions about UFOs,
argue and to discuss in the spirit of the Internet on AUFORA's new discussion
forum. "The truth is in there." (Source: AUFORA Press Release,
4/6/97)

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of like mind. Our goal is to create a global community of like-minded people
that can safely pass through whatever changes may come our way and help
give birth to a new way of life on our planet. Based primarily on the Information
Highway, we are not directly affiliated with any particular religion, organization,
political view or institution, but are aware of and working in harmony with
many groups who share similar goals. We invite everyone who is sincerely
seeking to understand the reason for our existence and the nature of the
changes presently unfolding on our planet, to join us.

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